Three Ways to Chill Beer

Published on Monday, October 6, 2008, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post

Three Ways to Chill Beer

Samuel Merritt of Civilization of Beer cools down beer at three different speeds in this tip: fast, faster, and fastest.

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  • Oh cool! All i know is adding water in a container with ice. Now I learned, salt also helps to make a quicker cooling. Great for an instant beer party. thanks a lot.

  • I think that's a great way to cool down drinks for a get together. Awesome. It's nice to drink cool beer on a hot day. I'm from the desert, and sometimes it can get to be 115 degrees outside. The fridge cools stuff off at a nice slow pace, but certainly not as fast as this.

    Also, in colder climates, I absolutely love pub ale from the tap. Just not room temperature stuff in warm weather.

  • Us old MG owners know about the high failure rate of the old Lucas electric components. The joke used to be - why do the Brits drink warm beer? They have Lucas refrigerators. Lucas was known as the prince of darkness.

    So why do Brits drink warm beer? The answer is that they don't - they keep the beer in the cellar (in a pub) where it is tapped and pumped up to the bar. They keep their beer at...+READ

    Us old MG owners know about the high failure rate of the old Lucas electric components. The joke used to be - why do the Brits drink warm beer? They have Lucas refrigerators. Lucas was known as the prince of darkness.

    So why do Brits drink warm beer? The answer is that they don't - they keep the beer in the cellar (in a pub) where it is tapped and pumped up to the bar. They keep their beer at cellar temp - a nice cool, year-round temperature that allows the flavors to bloom in your mouth. Of course, if you're drinking American Standard Adjunct Lager - like the Bud here - then flavor isn't exactly your concern, now is it? Why don't they just invent IV drips of alcohol for people who don't like to actually taste the stuff, and have to ice it down to taste like water?

    Except that this guy has some Nevada Pale Ale in the same batch as his Bud and Jamaican Red Stripe - known more for their shipments being used to smuggle in pot than for their actual beer. The PA shouldn't be iced down to nothingness - what a shame.-COLLAPSE

  • "Put it in the refrigerator" strangely missing.

    And what about hitting it with a CO2 fire extinguisher?